A Letter - Yukie Nishimura - Piano Cover

This is one of Yukie Nishimura's beautiful masterpieces. The sad and memorable melody touches my heart every time I listen to it.

A Letter - Yukie Nishimura - Piano Cover

For me, it's slowly becoming a tradition to release a piece of music on St. Patrick's Day to honor this saint, the Irish people, and goodness in and of itself. We live in a time where values ​​no longer matter, and greed, fraud, murder, and hatred are considered normal. Therefore, we must counteract this with something beautiful to cheer and strengthen the hearts of good people.

Saint-Patricks-day 2025

I have again the pleasure and honour to share with you a piece by my good friend Philippe Blanc! I told him I like his piece which is part of his album "Les 16 Ans" but would like to add some extra notes in the left hand, which he has allowed me to do....
Thank you Philippe!
I hope you will enjoy listening to this piece....
Thank you for listening....
for more music by Philippe Blanc
@philippe-blanc-546541169

Comme un Prélude by Philippe Blanc

This piece is about nothing, there's nothing else .... or is there?
First piece recorded with acoustic piano. What do you think about it? Is it better then digital?

No-thing

My initial piano sketch for this piece aroused associations with two styles: nothern shanty and southern work songs. So when it came to composing and arranging the full piece, I lent heavily into these styles. They blended incredibly good and the result is some adventurous fantasy piece that gave me strong pirate-vibes. Hence the cover - Arrr!

You may have noticed that I find more and more joy in recording live instruments. So if you want to have a look behind the scenes and see what and how I've recorded, you'll find quite a few shorts from this on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TorbenFugger/shorts

Saltwater Roots

I never met my paternal grandfather.  He died from a brain tumor at the age of 57, before I was born.  My father never talked about it, but my mother did.  In recounting my grandfather's illness and the family history she knew, she told me that when my grandfather was very young, he and his friends would go play in a number of nearby orange groves. Those groves were beautiful, spacious, and the oranges were free for the taking. Unfortunately, they were also heavily sprayed with pesticides during that time period. My mother believed that my grandfather's exposure to those pesticides most likely played a role in the cancer that took his life many years later.  At the time of his death, there was little attention paid to the notion that pesticide exposure could impact one’s health and longevity, so there was no discussion of the matter when he became ill.

I have often thought about his life, as well as my mother's words. While we'll never completely know what happened, we'll remember my grandfather and this chapter in his story.  There are lessons to be learned from it, as well as similar stories from others.  Our environment should not be harmful to health but should protect it.

This improvised composition was written to remember my grandfather's story.

The Orange Grove

Coffe And The Dog

I love early mornings when the house is still and quiet.  It's the perfect time for a little introspection.  Such was the case this morning, so I sat down at the piano and did some improvising.  Hope everyone listening has a wonderful and peaceful day, with a little quiet time in the mix.

A Quiet Moment

Mormor (Grandma) got a kiss, Hilma on the ride, Yeah Nr 4.

Fugue in Fm M.M. 67

Composed, played & produced by http://www.StanLeonard.com
I've been working on this instrumental since March. You can see me practicing an earlier (and slightly faster) version here on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/reel/DHbWh7HNPEw/

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This piece is about how life is like the ocean...Sometimes it’s calm and clear… other times, wild and unpredictable. You can’t fight the waves, but you can learn to ride them. Thanks for listening and sharing 🙏
Ambient Acoustic Guitar
Chill Guitar Instrumental

Waves (solo guitar)

Matheus Miras was born in Campinas, Brazil, in 1997. He began studying guitar at the age of 9 and piano at 10. At 13, he became interested in composition through the music of J. S. Bach, marking the beginning of his artistic output. Since then, Matheus has composed over 200 pieces for various settings, such as piano, harpsichord, string quartet, string orchestra, wind quartet, symphony orchestra, SATB choir, electronic and experimental music. Miras' work is mostly polyphonic and contrapuntal in nature, though his craft is often extremely exploratory.

Starting in 2017, he studied classical piano with professor Norberto Égon Osis and classical violin with professor Antônio Carlos Gomes at the Instituto Musical Souza Campos in Campinas. At the same time, he taught himself cello. In 2019, he pursued a degree in Musical Composition at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he was exposed to various styles, such as electronic, experimental, and atonal music, studying under professors like José Augusto Mannis, Jônatas Manzolli, Luiz Henrique Xavier, Suzel Ana Reily, Leandro Barsalini, Fernando Hashimoto, Paulo Adriano Ronqui and Carlos Fernando Fiorini.